Actor Andrew Watson is selling the Argyll estate that was his boyhood home  and the scene of one of Scotlands most notorious murders, which went on to make legal history

I grew up on a Scottish estate, in a mansion house with long corridors and distant rooms glowing with log fires. In the summer, we went boating from a private beach and played tennis in a walled garden lush with fruit and vegetables. We explored the dark corners of the woods and ran around on open hills beneath open skies.

Add to that a melodramatic tale of murder that excited as much attention as the Michael Jackson trial today, and you begin to understand the appeal of Ardlamont for my family and for me.

Ardlamont House is only 80 miles, but a whole world away from Glasgow, sitting on the end of Argyll’s Cowal Peninsula and staring south across Loch Fyne towards the mountaintops of Arran. In layout, the 640-acre estate is largely unchanged since a small army of staff lived and worked there in the early part of the